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Cancer and Nigeria, few facts and odds

2023 theme: Close the care Gap: Uniting our voices and taking action. By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Cancer is a major health condition which burdens the...

Not Again! Fatal flu claims 3 Nigerian lives in China, 7 hospitalised

Confirmed not to be COVID-19, nor any of its variants, but all the same deadly and presenting some symptoms like the pandemic that ravaged...

As Atiku, Tinubu bicker over health, Obi says the ‘sick’ should not preside over ‘sick’ nation

With the camps of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at each other's throats...

Resident doctors plan strike, write minister

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has informed the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that it plans to call its members out...

Muhammadu Buhari, NHIS, NHIA, a new beginning, an untapped potential

By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Almost seven months ago, Mr. President signed the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) bill into law, and this was a...

Sad: Mother of strikes begins Friday in Abia as doctors down tools over two years salary arrears

If the threat of strike beginning Friday in Abia State public hospitals goes through, then the promised "mother of strikes" by the Nigeria Medical...

Aso Villa top civil servant urges Nigerians to support efforts to end AIDS scourge

TO MARK WORLD AIDS DAY, PERMANENT  SECRETARY URGES NIGERIANS TO SUPPORT EFFORT TO END THE SCOURGE The Permanent Secretary State House, Tijjani Umar, has called...

Commemorating world AIDS day: Equalize to end AIDS; Equal access to treatment and prevention services

By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Since 1988, 34 years after the idea of commemorating the World AIDS Day was first muted, efforts to mark this...

New health reform bill underway, says Osinbajo as committee concludes retreat

  Pending a full committee report review and a complete policy document appraisal, a new health reform bill that will reposition the country's health sector...

No woman should pay with her life giving birth, says FIDA’s Ezinwa Okoroafor

(Featured Photo: Dr. Halima Bello, CMD of Gwarimpa General Hospital taking the FIDA delegation on a tour of the hospital) The 2022 Law week of...

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